List of the best Helen Hayes movies: The Sin of Madelon Claudet(1931), What Every Woman Knows(1934), A Farewell to Arms(1932), Vanessa, Her Love Story(1935), Herbie Rides Again(1974), A Caribbean Mystery(1983), Night Flight(1933), Arrowsmith(1931), One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing(1975), Anastasia(1956), Candleshoe(1977), Third Man on the Mountain(1959) ... ...
Drama
USA
1931
73 Minutes
Helen Hayes Lewis Stone Neil Hamilton Robert Young Cliff Edwards Jean Hersholt Marie Prevost Karen Morley Charles Winninger Alan Hale Halliwell Hobbes
doctor single mother artist jewel thief prostitute farmer melodramatic bleak profound paris france farm prison apartment city abandonment betrayal motherhood wrongful conviction patriarchy
Out of jail for a crime she did not commit, Madelon turns to prostitution and thievery to send her illegitimate son to medical school.
Comedy
USA
1934
92 Minutes
Maggie Wylie
Helen Hayes Brian Aherne Madge Evans Lucile Watson Dudley Digges Donald Crisp
student politician wife aristocratic lady amusing melodramatic scotland household ambition politics marriage of convenience romance family love transformation rise 1900s
The story takes place in Scotland, where plain Maggie Wylie's family, fearing she may become a spinster, finances young John Shand's studies in return for his agreement to marry her in five... See full summary »
Romance
USA
1932
78 Minutes
Catherine Barkley
Helen Hayes Gary Cooper Adolphe Menjou Mary Philips Jack LaRue Blanche Frederici Mary Forbes Gilbert Emery
ambulance driver nurse commanding officer soldier emotional gripping italy battlefield hospital switzerland world war i horrors of war love triangle love transformation 1910s
An American ambulance driver and an English nurse fall in love in Italy during World War I.
Romance
USA
1935
76 Minutes
Vanessa Paris
Helen Hayes Robert Montgomery May Robson Otto Kruger Lewis Stone Henry Stephenson Violet Kemble Cooper Donald Crisp Jessie Ralph Lionel Belmore Lawrence Grant
The only person that Vanessa wants to marry is Benjamin and they are finally engaged. When a fire sweeps through her fathers house, Benjie is able to save Vanessa, but he cannot save her ... See full summary »
Comedy, Kids & Family
USA
1974
88 Minutes
Helen Hayes Ken Berry Stefanie Powers John McIntire Keenan Wynn Huntz Hall Ivor Barry Dan Tobin Vito Scotti Raymond Bailey Liam Dunn
elderly woman niece real estate developer lawyer herbie love interest charming lighthearted playful san francisco house hotel office real estate supernatural car deception romance greed underdog discovery
The living Volkswagen Beetle helps an old lady protect her home from a corrupt developer.
Mystery & Thriller
1983
100 Minutes
Miss Jane Marple
Helen Hayes Barnard Hughes Jameson Parker Season Hubley Swoosie Kurtz Stephen Macht Beth Howland Maurice Evans Brock Peters
miss marple murder suspect writer major detective serial killer chilling thrilling amusing intricate caribbean bahamas resort murder cold case vacation mysterious deaths investigation detective work mystery
Agatha Christie's sleuth Miss Marple (Helen Hayes) shakes pneumonia at a resort full of interesting people and murder.
Drama
USA
1933
84 Minutes
John Barrymore Helen Hayes Clark Gable Lionel Barrymore Robert Montgomery C. Henry Gordon Harry Beresford Irving Pichel
Polio breaks out in Rio de Janeiro, the serum is in Santiago and there's only one way to get the medicine where it's desperately needed: flown in by daring pilots who risk the treacherous weather and forbidding peaks of the Andes.
Drama
USA
1931
108 Minutes
Leora Arrowsmith
Ronald Colman Helen Hayes Richard Bennett A.E. Anson Clarence Brooks Alec B. Francis Claude King Bert Roach Myrna Loy Russell Hopton
doctor nurse husband wife professor inspiring intricate melodramatic minnesota new york city west indies medicine scientific experiments prestige city vs. country work vs. family love sacrifice transformation 1920s
A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine.
Kids & Family, Adventure
UK|USA
1975
93 Minutes
Peter Ustinov Helen Hayes Clive Revill Derek Nimmo Joan Sims Bernard Bresslaw Natasha Pyne Roy Kinnear Joss Ackland Deryck Guyler Andrew Dove
nanny secret service agent british woman chinese man officer lord amusing engaging lighthearted madcap offbeat winsome museum london chinese restaurant heist secret service theft unlikely allies hostages
A suspected Western spy steals a secret microfilm from China and hides it in the skeleton of a museum dinosaur, prompting a frantic search for it by various interested parties.
Drama
USA
1956
105 Minutes
Dowager Empress
Ingrid Bergman Yul Brynner Helen Hayes Akim Tamiroff Martita Hunt Felix Aylmer Sacha Pitoeff Ivan Desny Natalie Schafer
refugee military officer prince empress czar nicholas ii emotional melodramatic royal court paris copenhagen, denmark royalty amnesia fortune missing persons quest rise 1920s
An opportunistic businessman tries to pass off a mysterious impostor as the Grand Duchess Anastasia, and she is so convincing that even the biggest skeptics believe her.
Kids & Family, Comedy
UK|USA
1977
101 Minutes
Lady St. Edmund
David Niven Jodie Foster Helen Hayes Leo McKern Vivian Pickles Veronica Quilligan Ian Sharrock Sarah Tamakuni David Samuels John Alderson Mildred Shay
young girl con artist elderly woman lady butler orphan charming playful estate england treasure con game helping others theft impersonation transformation temptation mystery 1970s
Welcome to Candleshoe, a stately English manor where a swashbuckling pirate hid a fortune in Spanish doubloons centuries ago. And that's what young orphan Casey and a sly con man are determined to find.
Kids & Family, Adventure
USA|UK
1959
107 Minutes
Tourist
James MacArthur Michael Rennie Janet Munro James Donald Walter Fitzgerald Helen Hayes Herbert Lom Ferdinand Mayne Laurence Naismith Lee Patterson Nora Swinburne
mountain climber mother father son captain teammate inspiring winsome heartwarming swiss alps switzerland village the matterhorn family honor father/son relationship mountain climbing determination dangerous mission quest growing up
A boy attempts to realize his father's dream of climbing an alpine peak known as the Citadel.
Drama
Italy|France|West Germany
1976
150 Minutes
Kirk Douglas Elizabeth Taylor Burt Lancaster Helmut Berger Theodore Bikel Linda Blair Richard Dreyfuss Stefan Gierasch David Groh Julius Harris Helen Hayes
The young student Paolo Passeri is firmly anti-militarist but has to do his military service.